Adolf Hitler returned to Berlin in triumph. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, absent from Berlin since May 10, returned to the city and was welcomed with great enthusiasm as he drove over streets covered with flowers. There are state-ordered acclamations and he addresses a large crowd from his balcony with Hermann Goering. There is genuine public adoration, it is not all just state-mandated. Some point to this day as Hitler’s moment of greatest public triumph; if he had just stopped here, history would take a completely different political view of him with the huge caveat of the developing Holocaust.
The Reich newspapers are full of adulation and superlatives for Hitler, terming him the “Lord of battle,” “Rouser out of Stupor,” “Shaper of the New Europe” and so forth.
The Nazis have decided that when they have conquered Britain all men aged between 17 and 45 will be deported to Germany. Walter Schellenberg of Himmler’s SS has also prepared a Black Book with the names of 2,820 people who are to be rounded up as dangerous subversives. They include Noël Coward, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, J. B. Priestley, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and Beatrice Webb. Many British institutions are to be closed, including Oxford and Cambridge.
The first German U-boat base in France was opened at Lorient.
German radio stations played the song “Denn wir fahren gegen Engeland” for the first time.
The first successful escape from Auschwitz is followed by a punitive 20-hour roll-call.
The first U-boat base in France became operational at Lorient.
The French Admiralty has announced that because of the British fleet’s attack on our naval combat forces which were in the process of disarmament; French naval officers are prohibited from wearing British medals.
The demobilization of the French ships at Alexandria continues.
The British continue with their “strategy of the periphery,” wherein they launch small spy and commando raids against the German forces on the Continent rather than try to confront them directly. Operation ANGER sends 2nd Lieutenant Hubert Nicolle, a native Guernseyman, back to his home island. A Royal Navy submarine drops him off just offshore, and he rows in on a canoe. He is there on a fact-finding mission.
The German military commander in the Netherlands, Air Corps General Friedrich Christiansen, issued a sharp communique today accusing the Netherland army and population of a disloyal attitude toward the German occupation. He accused some Dutch of aiding the British RAF bombing campaign.
The fate of Southeastern Europe will be decided in Berlin within the next few days, according to reliable information in Rome. Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, will arrive tomorrow morning, and discussions are expected to last throughout Tuesday,
Premier Ion Gigurtu announced tonight the basic policies of Rumania’s new authoritarian regime. In a radio address to the nation he disclaimed the responsibility of his government for the critical situation in which the country had found itself for the past ten days. He stated the methods by which he hopes to re-establish stability and ensure the national existence, and he appealed for public support to accomplish his program. A few hours before M. Gigurtu spoke, Parliament was adjourned by decree. There was no indication when it would reconvene.
The big, monocled Premier, who is also boss of Rumania totalitarian Party of the Nation, told the people the time for words was past and “legislative inflation” would not be tolerated. He called for a strong army, new objectives, controlled education, a readjustment of the national economy with restrictions on industry and a policy of friendly toleration for minorities with the exception of those who had proved themselves “disloyal.” It needs small perspicacity to realize that here M. Gigurtu referred to Rumania’s 450,000 Jews remaining since the amputation of the eastern districts. He warned that the government intended to take definite action against them — although he never referred to the Jews by name — and he said their “offenses and insults” would not be forgotten.
Disregarding protests by both the British and American Legations, the Rumanian Government today carried out expulsion of British subjects who were officials in oil companies here and nine members of their families.
Plymouth Blitz: The English city of Plymouth was bombed for the first time.
The Luftwaffe raids South Devon, but causes few casualties. A raid on the southeast coast is driven off and a Heinkel 111 shot down offshore by a Spitfire.
RAF Bomber Command dispatches 19 Blenheims during daylight to bomb airfields and barges in Belgium; only 6 aircraft bombed, 1 lost.
RAF Bomber Command dispatches 43 aircraft to German ports, airfields in Holland, and minelaying overnight. 1 Wellington and 1 Whitley lost.
At Malta, there is an air raid at 08:10, but the bombers turn back without attacking. There is another raid at 21:10, and this time the raiders drop bombs near the dockyards and on Fort St. Angelo. There is a very little warning, and two dockyard workers are killed and nine wounded. The Regia Aeronautica loses two planes. There also is a raid on the workers’ community at Paola and nearby areas.
Italian aircraft attack Matruh.
The Egyptian steam merchant Angele Mabro was torpedoed and sunk by the U-30, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, west-southwest of Brest in the eastern Atlantic Ocean in 47° 03’N, 7° 55’W. At 0831 hours on the unescorted and neutral Angele Mabro (Master Alexander Kilikas) was hit one port side amidships by one G7e torpedo from U-30 and sank immediately with all hands about 160 miles west-southwest of Brest, France. The 3,154-ton Angele Mabro was carrying iron ore and was headed for Cardiff, Wales.
U-34, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Rollmann, sank Estonian steamer Vapper in 49-30N, 09-15W. At 1058 hours the unescorted Vapper (Master O. Laas) was hit underneath the bridge by one G7e torpedo from U-34 south of Cape Clear. After the crew abandoned ship in two lifeboats, the U-boat fired at 1115 hours a G7a coup de grâce that hit in the engine room and caused the ship to break in two and sink in less than a minute. The next day, the master and 14 crew members were picked up by HMS Broke (Cdr B.G. Scurfield, RN) in position 50°10N/07°56W and were later landed in Falmouth. Also on 7 July, the 17 survivors in the other boat were picked up by HMCS Restigouche (H 00) (Cdr H.N. Lay, RCN) and landed at Plymouth later that day. The sinking had been observed by U-99 (Kretschmer), which had chased this ship for 90 minutes and was just about to attack herself when it was torpedoed by the other U-boat. The 4,543-ton Vapper was carrying coal and was headed for Buenos Aires, Argentina.
French Amiral Estava from Bizerte made a broadcast that French battleship Dunkerque was not seriously damaged in the 3 July Mers el Kebir attack and would soon be repaired. Upon receipt of this, British Force H, which was about to strike at French battleship Richelieu at Dakar, was ordered to make a second strike on Dunkerque. Force H departed Gibraltar at 2000/5th with battlecruiser HMS Hood, battleship HMS Valiant, aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, light cruisers HMS Arethusa and HMS Enterprise, and destroyers HMS Fearless, HMS Foxhound, HMS Forester, HMS Escort, HMS Wishart, HMS Vortigern, HMS Vidette, HMS Active, and HMS Velox on operation LEVER, the neutralization of French battleship Dunkerque. Aircraft from aircraft carrier Ark Royal arrived at Mers el Kebir and sank French auxiliary minesweeper Esterel V (30grt). One petty officer and five ratings were lost in the minesweeper. French auxiliary patrol boat Terre Neuve (780grt), alongside Dunkerque, was sunk and her depth charges exploded ripping a huge gash in Dunkerque’s side. Four officers and one hundred and fifty ratings were killed or wounded. One officer, one petty officer, and six ratings were killed in the patrol boat. Total French casualties for the raids of 3 and 6 July on Mers el Kebir were 1297 killed and 351 wounded. Battleship Dunkerque was repaired sufficiently to be moved in February 1942. She arrived at Toulon on 19 February, escorted by destroyers Fougueux, Frondeur, Kersaint, Tartu, and Vauquelin. A Skua of 803 Squadron was damaged by gunfire from French fighters and ditched off Oran. Petty Officer G. W. Peacock and Leading Airman B. P. Dearnley were rescued.
Light cruisers HMS Capetown and HMS Caledon of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and destroyers HMS Janus, HMS Juno, HMS Ilex, and HMS Imperial bombarded Bardia from 0537 to 0631. Italian steamer Axum (249grt) was sunk and one merchant ship was damaged. At 0820, the force was attacked by Italian bombers, but no damage was done. The British force arrived back at Alexandria on the 6th.
An Italian convoy of steamers Esperia (11,398grt), Calitea (4013grt), Marco Foscarini (6342grt), and Vettor Pisani (6339grt) escorted by Italian torpedo boats Orsa, Pegaso, Procione, and Orione of the 4th Torpedo Boat Division departed Naples for Benghazi. The convoy was joined on the 7th by Italian steamer Francesco Barbero (6343grt) and torpedo boats Abba and Pilo from Catania.
British submarine HMS Shark suffers tremendous damage by a Luftwaffe attack, making it unable to steer or dive. The Kriegsmarine captures it and takes it in tow the next day, but scuttling charges set by the crew sink it before it makes landfall. There are 33 crewmen taken prisoner, while three perish.
Submarine HMS Sealion had attacked a German convoy off Skudesnshavn in Boknafjord at 1550/3rd. She came under heavy counterattack for forty five hours and withdrew. However, submarine HMS Shark (Lt Cdr P. N. Buckley) coming into the patrol area to relieve Sealion was taken under attack at 2200 at 5 July and badly damaged by German auxiliary minesweepers M.1803 (trawler Spitzbergen: 469grt), M.1806 (trawler Cuxhaven: 491grt), and M.1807 (trawler Mulsum: 480grt) in 58-18N, 5-13E. Submarine Shark was able to get off a distress message at 2250 advising her location of 58-51N, 4-50E and that she was unable to dive. Light cruiser HMS Southampton, anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Coventry, and destroyers HMS Cossack (D.4), HMS Maori, HMS Fame, and HMS Fortune set out from Scapa Flow at 0215 to escort submarine Shark to Rosyth. However, Shark was captured and sank in tow before the British force could arrive. Lt Cdr Buckley, Lt D. H. B. Barrett, Lt D. E. Wheeler, S/Lt R. D. J. Barnes RNR, Warrant Engineer C. C. Loder (act), and twenty seven ratings were captured and taken prisoner. Two crewmen were killed and one crewman was fatally wounded. Also, another rating was killed 27 August 1940 when dealing with an unexploded British bomb near the prison camp. By 1000, the destroyers had searched submarine Shark’s track without success. Destroyer Fame was damaged at 1240 aft by the straddling of a salvo of nine bombs twenty eight miles west of Scotstoun Head. Destroyer Fame’s speed was reduced to twenty knots. Lt (E) A. R. R. Knowles and two ratings were killed, one rating died of wounds, and sixteen ratings were wounded on destroyer Fame. The entire British force proceeded to Rosyth, arriving at 2330. The force passed Oxcars Boom at 0040/7th. Destroyer Fame began repairs at Rosyth completed 5 October. The British force departed Rosyth at 2015 on the 7th for Scapa Flow, arriving at 0830/8th with Southampton, which had conducted firing practices, arriving at 1130.
German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin is towed from Kiel to Gotenhafen (Gdynia) to avoid air attack in Operation Zugvogel. The ship is incomplete and work has been stopped on it.
Destroyer HMS Garth arrived at Scapa Flow at 1840 to work up.
British steamer Apricity (402grt) was damaged by German bombing south of Portland Bill. Steamer Apricity in convoy OA.178 had been attacked on the 4th, but not damaged.
Convoy FN.215 departed Southend, escorted by sloops HMS Lowestoft and HMS Weston and patrol sloop HMS Mallard. Destroyers HMS Kashmir and HMS Kelvin joined the convoy for 7 July. Sloop Mallard was detached on the 7th. The convoy arrived at the Tyne on the 8th.
Convoy BC of troopships Reina Del Pacifico, Orion, Stratheden, Kenya, Karanja, and Aska departed Freetown escorted by heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall. The convoy arrived in England on the 19th.
The War at Sea, Saturday, 6 July 1940 (naval-history.net)
French Amiral Estava from Bizerte made a broadcast that French battleship DUNKERQUE was not seriously damaged in the 3 July Mer el Kebir attack and would soon be repaired.
Upon receipt of this, British Force H, which was about to strike at French battleship RICHELIEU at Dakar, was ordered to make a second strike on DUNKERQUE.
Force H departed Gibraltar at 2000/5th with battlecruiser HOOD, battleship VALIANT, aircraft carrier ARK ROYAL, light cruisers ARETHUSA and ENTERPRISE, and destroyers FEARLESS, FOXHOUND, FORESTER, ESCORT, WISHART, VORTIGERN, VIDETTE, ACTIVE, and VELOX on operation LEVER, the neutralization of French battleship DUNKERQUE.
Aircraft from aircraft carrier ARK ROYAL arrived at Mer el Kebir and sank French auxiliary minesweeper ESTEREL V (30grt). One petty officer and five ratings were lost in the minesweeper.
French auxiliary patrol boat TERRE NEUVE (780grt), alongside DUNKERQUE, was sunk and her depth charges exploded ripping a huge gash in DUNKERQUE’s side. Four officers and one hundred and fifty ratings were killed or wounded. One officer, one petty officer, and six ratings were killed in the patrol boat.
Total French casualties for the raids of 3 and 6 July on Mer el Kebir were 1297 killed and 351 wounded.
Battleship DUNKERQUE was repaired sufficiently to be moved in February 1942. She arrived at Toulon on 19 February, escorted by destroyers FOUGUEUX, FRONDEUR, KERSAINT, TARTU, and VAUQUELIN.
A Skua of 803 Squadron was damaged by gunfire from French fighters and ditched off Oran. Petty Officer G. W. Peacock and Leading Airman B. P. Dearnley were rescued.
Light cruisers CAPETOWN and CALEDON of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and destroyers JANUS, JUNO, ILEX, and IMPERIAL bombarded Bardia from 0537 to 0631. Italian steamer AXUM (249grt) was sunk and one merchant ship was damaged.
At 0820, the force was attacked by Italian bombers, but no damage was done.
The British force arrived back at Alexandria on the 6th.
An Italian convoy of steamers ESPERIA (11,398grt), CALITEA (4013grt), MARCO FOSCARINI (6342grt), and VETTOR PISANI (6339grt) escorted by Italian torpedo boats ORSA, PEGASO, PROCIONE, and ORIONE of the 4th Torpedo Boat Division departed Naples for Benghazi. The convoy was joined on the 7th by Italian steamer FRANCESCO BARBERO (6343grt) and torpedo boats ABBA and PILO from Catania.
Submarine SEALION had attacked a German convoy off Skudesnshavn in Boknafjord at 1550/3rd. She came under heavy counterattack for forty-five hours and withdrew.
However, submarine SHARK (Lt Cdr P. N. Buckley) coming into the patrol area to relieve SEALION was taken under attack at 2200 at 5 July and badly damaged by German auxiliary minesweepers M.1803 (trawler SPITZBERGEN: 469grt), M.1806 (trawler CUXHAVEN: 491grt), and M.1807 (trawler MULSUM: 480grt) in 58‑18N, 5‑13E.
Submarine SHARK was able to get off a distress message at 2250 advising her location of 58-51N, 4-50E and that she was unable to dive.
Light cruiser SOUTHAMPTON, anti-aircraft cruiser COVENTRY, and destroyers COSSACK (D.4), MAORI, FAME, and FORTUNE set out from Scapa Flow at 0215 to escort submarine SHARK to Rosyth.
However, SHARK was captured and sank in tow before the British force could arrive. Lt Cdr Buckley, Lt D. H. B. Barrett, Lt D. E. Wheeler, S/Lt R. D. J. Barnes RNR, Warrant Engineer C. C. Loder (act), and twenty-seven ratings were captured and taken prisoner. Two crew were killed and one crewman was fatally wounded. Also, another rating was killed 27 August 1940 when dealing with an unexploded British bomb near the prison camp.
By 1000, the destroyers had searched submarine SHARK’s track without success.
Destroyer FAME was damaged at 1240 aft by the straddling of a salvo of nine bombs twenty-eight miles west of Scotstoun Head.
Destroyer FAME’s speed was reduced to twenty knots.
Lt (E) A. R. R. Knowles and two ratings were killed, one rating died of wounds, and sixteen ratings were wounded on destroyer FAME.
The entire British force proceeded to Rosyth, arriving at 2330. The force passed Oxcars Boom at 0040/7th.
Destroyer FAME began repairs at Rosyth completed 5 October.
The British force departed Rosyth at 2015 on the 7th for Scapa Flow, arriving at 0830/8th with SOUTHAMPTON, which had conducted firing practices, arriving at 1130.
Destroyer GARTH arrived at Scapa Flow at 1840 to work up.
Convoy FN.215 departed Southend, escorted by sloops LOWESTOFT and WESTON and patrol sloop MALLARD. Destroyers KASHMIR and KELVIN joined the convoy for 7 July. Sloop MALLARD was detached on the 7th. The convoy arrived at the Tyne on the 8th.
U-30 sank British steamer SEA GLORY (1964grt) south of Ireland.
There were no survivors and the fate of SEA GLORY is not certain. She was reported missing on the 11th. She may have been sunk by U-34 on the 6th or U-99 on the 7th.
U-34 sank Estonian steamer VAPPER (4543grt) in 49‑30N, 09‑15W.
One crewman was killed on the Estonian steamer. The survivors were rescued by Canadian destroyer RESTIGOUCHE.
British steamer APRICITY (402grt) was damaged by German bombing south of Portland Bill.
Steamer APRICITY in convoy OA.178 had been attacked on the 4th, but not damaged.
Convoy BC of troopships REINA DEL PACIFICO, ORION, STRATHEDEN, KENYA, KARANJA, and ASKA departed Freetown escorted by heavy cruiser CORNWALL. The convoy arrived in England on the 19th.
President Roosevelt suggested today that Europe and Asia each apply the principles of the Monroe Doctrine to its own territories. Under these principles all of the European and Asiatic nations would confer and “make the decision — not just one conquering power.” “Let all of them settle their disputes in Asia and Europe and let all the Americas settle the question of disposition, administration and supervision of such islands or other territorial possessions which belonged to nations conquered by Germany and which lie properly within this hemisphere,” said Stephen T. Early, White House secretary, who spoke for the President. This renewed warning to European and Asiatic powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere, coming on the heels of Germany’s former rejections as “pointless,” of the United States’ “hands off” notice to the Reich, was regarded as sounding the keynote of the Pan-American conference scheduled for Havana this month. It had the effect of investing other Western Hemisphere nations with a proprietary interest in the Monroe Doctrine.
The President, in effect, told outside countries to mind their business as this nation proposed to mind its own. But he withdrew nothing from his statement yesterday that freedom of cultural and commercial intercourse between nations was necessary for enduring world peace. Mr. Early was careful to point out that the Chief Executive had discussed the subject at length with Secretary Hull during a telephone conversation last night. “There is an absence of any intention on the part of this government,” Mr. Early said for the President, “to interfere in any territorial problems in Europe or Asia. This government would like to see and thinks there should be applied ‘a Monroe Doctrine’ for each of those continents. “The United States is not out to gain any new territorial possession; it does not contemplate any territorial expansion.
“But, for example, should a victorious Germany lay claim to territories of conquered nations in this hemisphere, we hold that the issue comes within the province of the Monroe Doctrine. We hold that it works in this way: The United States does not take over the islands or territorial possessions of the conquered nations but it believes and holds the position that their disposition and administration should be decided among and by all of the American republics.” As an example of the practical application of the policy he said the President had outlined a short time before, Mr. Early said this government would ask no voice in the disposition of French Indo-China because of its place in the sphere of Asiatic influence. “For instance,” said Mr. Early, “in the case of French Indo-China, we think the disposition should be decided among the Asiatic countries.”
Wendell L. Willkie, Republican Presidential nominee, has turned “thumbs down” on the formation of any “brain trust” and is determined during the coming campaign to present his position on problems confronting the nation in speeches that he has personally written, it was learned authoritatively yesterday. While the candidate has always been willing to listen to suggestions and advice from all possible sources, it is known that he has proudly told persons close to him that “I have never in my life delivered a speech which I haven’t written myself and I am not going to change my habits now.” Meanwhile Mr. Willkie deferred any formal announcement of his campaign organization plans until after a conference with United States Senator Charles L. McNary, his running mate, in Washington tomorrow afternoon. Following a second day meeting with the subcommittee of the Republican National Committee at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Mr. Willkie announced that no definite action had yet been taken on the appointment of his proposed three-man campaign board.
He said he was leaving New York tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock by plane from La Guardia Airport, and would “talk over” the entire campaign set-up with Senator McNary, whom he will be meeting for the first time, before making any decision concerning the board, which is to include the Republican national chairman, a campaign manager and a personal representative of the candidate. Under the plans announced yesterday, Mr. Willkie is scheduled to arrive in Washington shortly after 3 o’clock, and will confer in private with Senator McNary during the rest of the afternoon. In the evening he will be the guest of honor at a dinner given by Representative Joseph W. Martin Jr., minority leader of the House, and Representatives Frank O. Horton and Charles A. Halleck. The dinner will be attended by Republican members of Congress, John D. M. Hamilton, Republican national chairman; the staff of the Congressional campaign committee and the eleven members of the subcommittee who have been conferring with Mr. Willkie.
Surveys by the American Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup Poll), presenting a completed picture of the astonishing popular rise of Wendell L. Willkie as rank-and-file Republican choice for the Presidency, show that in the final days before his actual nomination Mr. Willkie passed all other G.O.P. candidates, and became the first choice of his party’s “grass-roots” membership, Dr. George Gallup, the institute’s director, reports. “As late as March this year,” he goes on, “the institute’s nationwide surveys, conducted among Republican voters, found fewer than 1 percent naming Willkie as their choice for the nomination. The G.O.P. nominee was scarcely known at all in the West and Midwest, the surveys indicated. “Then, according to successive institute studies, began a Wilkie trend that gathered momentum with the passing weeks, until the actual moment of the nomination.
The New York Times says Postmaster-General James A. Farley will retire from national politics shortly after the Democratic convention to become head of the New York Yankees baseball team and its affiliated clubs. Farley will not accept reelection as chairman of the Democratic national committee and also will resign soon as postmaster-general, the newspaper says.
A new challenge to the American Youth Congress to go on record against the suppression of civil liberties by totalitarian States, including Soviet Russia, rose from within its own ranks late today. After Gene Tunney, the former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, had made known his support of plans for a rival youth organization, and had started back for New York, the issue was brought up anew by Franklin Kramer, delegate to the Congress from the All-Campus Peace Federation of the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Kramer at a meeting of the Commission on Civil Liberties of the Congress offered a resolution, which would have placed the Congress on record as condemning the suppression of civil liberties under the totalitarian governments of Germany, Italy, Russia, and Spain.
The resolution was ruled out of order on the ground that the commission was constituted to consider only civil liberties in the United States, but Mr. Kramer announced he would offer it later tonight at a general session of the Congress. “I’d like to see a little deviation. from the Communist party line,” Mr. Kramer told reporters. “I don’t want to kick out the Communists or the Fascists either, but there should be a stand against the party line. “We never can attack the sacred cow of Russia or of Communism. We can criticize England for her colonies and tell the United States to keep out of South America, but we can’t say anything about Russia going into Finland or Poland.”
The War Department has decided to urge compulsory military training, it was authoritatively reported today, but will recommend changes in legislation now pending in Congress.
Five destroyers of the American neutrality patrol were said in informed quarters here to be lying tonight off Martinique, French island in the West Indies, to observe the reported British blockade.
About 6,500,000 voters, or 14 percent, would cast their ballots in favor of entering the European war, and about 39,000,000 would vote against it, if a referendum of the voting population of the United States were taken at the present time, a survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion indicates. This is down from 19 percent two weeks ago.
More than $346,000,000 has been spent by the WPA in five years on direct national defense projects, plus many more millions expended on roads, streets and public buildings which have increased defense facilities, Colonel F.C. Harrington, WPA Commissioner, said today.
President Roosevelt has taken another step in tightening the country’s defenses by signing a bill passed by Congress which in effect gives the Army and Navy immediate access to all war inventions for which applications are pending in the Patent Office.
Henry Gifford Hardy, 38, Chicago lawyer, clicked through the turnstiles at Treasure island tonight to find himself hailed as the two millionth visitor to the 1940 Golden Gate exposition.
Professor Enrico Fermi of the University of Rome and 1938 winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, has obtained a U.S. patent (No. 2,206,634) for a method of transmuting one chemical element into another by bombardment of atoms with slow neutrons.
Colonel Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. arrives to take command of the Alaska Defense Force.
Major League Baseball:
The Dodgers maintained their one-game lead over the Reds by shutting out the Bees, 2-0, behind Tot Pressnell’s three-hit pitching at Boston. The Dodgers collected eight hits, two each by Pete Coscarart and Pee Wee Reese.
At Chicago, Paul Derringer allows just one hit — Stan Hack’s double in the 6th — as the Reds top the Cubs, 4–0. Frank McCormick’s three-run homer in the first is the big Red blow.
The Giants were routed by the Phillies, 8-2, at the Polo Grounds. Kirby Higbe kept the New Yorkers in check with just six hits, While the Phillies amassed 12 of their own and collected seven more runners on walks.
The Pittsburgh Pirates won a doubleheader from the Cardinals today, 15–8, and 4–3. The second game went ten innings. Enos Slaughter homered in both games for the Cardinals.
The Tigers sweep a pair from the Browns and move within 2 percentage points of the Indians. In an 11–2 win, Bobo Newsom allows three hits in winning his 12th straight — all complete games as Detroit pounds Vern Kennedy for 12 hits in 4+ innings. Detroit scores two unearned runs in the nitecap to give young Johnny Gorsica the win over John Niggeling. Niggeling allows just 4 hits.
The Yankees dropped an 8-7 decision to the Athletics on Frank Hayes’s double, his fourth hit of the day, in the tenth at Philadelphia. Two homers by Babe Dahlgren and another by Charley Keller could not make up for the Yankees leaving eleven men on base.
Held hitless for four frames by bespectacled Bill Dietrich, the Indians drove him from the mound in the fifth with a six-run attack today and coasted to a 7–3 victory over the White Sox to keep their grip on first place.
Capitalizing on three errors, the Boston Red Sox produced four runs after two were out in the ninth inning today and defeated the Washington Senators, 5–3. Dominic DiMaggio contributed a triple during the game-winning rally.
Brooklyn Dodgers 2, Boston Bees 0
Cincinnati Reds 4, Chicago Cubs 0
Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland Indians 7
St. Louis Browns 2, Detroit Tigers 11
St. Louis Browns 0, Detroit Tigers 2
Philadelphia Phillies 8, New York Giants 2
New York Yankees 7, Philadelphia Athletics 8
Pittsburgh Pirates 15, St. Louis Cardinals 8
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Boston Red Sox 5, Washington Senators 3
Tomorrow the Mexican people, tense with excitement, will be called to the polls to decide by their votes who shall compose the new Congress, which is to be completely renewed on September 1, and who shall be the new President to sit in the National Palace for a six-year period beginning December 1. Though the campaign was fought with considerable bitterness on both sides, everything points to the conclusion that tomorrow’s election will be comparatively peaceful. There will certainly be plenty of local clashes between the supporters of the two candidates, but no general upheaval on a national scale is expected.
The governing board of the Pan-American Union approved with only one minor modification today the proposed agenda for the Havana conference opening July 20 to promote closer economic, political and military cooperation of the Western Hemisphere.
With the Pan-American Conference of Foreign Ministers scheduled to meet in Havana the latter part of this month, Nazi and Communist propagandists have redoubled their efforts in the island.
China’s war position, domestically and internationally, was appraised today in statements by the nation’s leaders, issued to mark the end of the third year of hostilities with Japan. The statements express the determination to continue the fight to the end despite the grave adversities represented by the recent Japanese capture of the important transport center of Ichang and the closing of the Indo-China border and reflect a stanch belief in ultimate victory. The United States and the Soviet Union were singled out for special reference in the day’s most important message from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, addressed to “friendly nations.” General Chiang pointed out that the United States and Russia, because they were not yet involved in the war in Europe, were at liberty to exert themselves in China’s favor and in opposition to Japan.
The third anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese-Japanese War was marked in Shanghai this morning with the arrest and detention by United States Marine patrols of fifteen Japanese gendarmes who had penetrated the American defense sector clad in civilian clothes but each armed with one or two revolvers. These men are at present detained in the Marine prison here. Notification of their arrest has been telephoned to Japanese Army authorities, but thus far the Japanese have made no move of explanation or any attempt to obtain the men’s release.
The Story Bridge opened in Brisbane, Australia. Construction of the bridge began in 1935 and it was opened this day by the Governor of Queensland, Sir Leslie Orme Wilson.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 121.59 (+0.08)
Born:
Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan (1990-2019), in Chemolgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union.
Viktor Kuzkin, Soviet ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1964, 1968, 1972), in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (d. 2008).
Gary Ballman, NFL flanker, split end, and tight end (Pro Bowl, 1964, 1965; Pittaburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants, Minnesota Vikings), in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2004).
Jeannie Seely, American country music singer (“Don’t Touch Me”), and songwriter, in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
Naval Construction:
The Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Dauphin (K 157) is laid down by Canadian Vickers Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada).
The Kriegsmarine (German Navy) Type IID U-boats U-151 and U-152 are laid down by Deutsche Werke AG, Kiel (werk 280 and 281).
The Royal Navy corvette HMS Hepatica (K 159) is launched by the Davie Shipbuilding and Repairing Co. Ltd. (Lauzon, Quebec, Canada). She is transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy before completion and commissions as HMCS Hepatica (K 159).
The Royal Navy Vosper 60 feet-type class motor torpedo boat HMS MTB 72 is commissioned. Her first commanding officer is T/Lieutenant William Bruce Thornton Bate, RNVR.
The Royal Navy (ex-French) La Melpoméne-class torpedo boat HMS Branlebas is commissioned. Her first commanding officer in British service is Lieutenant Hugh Charles James McRea, RN.
The Royal Navy (ex-French) La Melpoméne-class torpedo boat HMS L’Incomprise is commissioned. Her first commanding officer in British service is Lieutenant Commander John Douglas Hayes, RN.
The Royal Navy (ex-French) La Melpoméne-class torpedo boat HMS La Cordeliere is commissioned. Her first commanding officer in British service is Commander Robert William Stirling-Hamilton, RN.
The Royal Navy (ex-French) La Melpoméne-class torpedo boat HMS La Flore is commissioned. Her first commanding officer in British service is Lieutenant Eric Lister Jones, RN.
The Royal Navy (ex-French) La Melpoméne-class torpedo boat HMS La Melpoméne is commissioned. Her first commanding officer in British service is Lieutenant John Frederick Anthony Ashcroft, RN.
The Royal Navy (ex-French) Bourrasque-class destroyer HMS Mistral is commissioned. Her first commanding officer in British service is Commander Claude Henry Brooks, RAN.
The Royal Navy (ex-French) Chacal-class large destroyer HMS Léopard is commissioned. Her first commanding officer in British service is Commander William Eric Banks, RN.
The Royal Navy (ex-French) Le Fantasque-class large destroyer HMS Le Triomphant is commissioned. Her first commanding officer in British service is Commander Maxwell Richmond, OBE, RN.
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